Switching to AMD64 from I386 using make world
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Sat Sep 19 21:00:53 UTC 2009
Kostik Belousov writes:
> > You will also have to install all your ports again as amd64 binaries.
>
> Not system-management 32bit applications should mostly work on
> amd64.
True, with due respect to "should mostly".
On the other hand ... if you're installing from scratch, why
not go completely native? I recently built an amd64 desktop which
now has 650+ ports installed. (About 100 are X related.) As far as
I know all build using amd64 binaries/libraries.
Robert Huff
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